Postcolonial Comics

<p>This collection examines new comic-book cultures, graphic writing, and <i>bande dessinée</i> texts as they relate to postcolonialism in contemporary Anglophone and Francophone settings. The individual chapters are framed within a larger enquiry that considers definitive aspects of the postcolonial condition in twenty-first-century (con)texts. </p><p>The authors demonstrate that the fields of comic-book production and circulation in various regional histories introduce new postcolonial vocabularies, reconstitute conventional "image-functions" in established social texts and political systems, and present competing narratives of resistance and rights. In this sense, postcolonial comic cultures are of particular significance in the context of a newly global and politically recomposed landscape. </p><p>This volume introduces a timely intervention within current comic-book-area studies that remain firmly situated within the "U.S.-European and Japanese manga paradigms" and their reading publics. It will be of great interest to a wide variety of disciplines including postcolonial studies, comics-area studies, cultural studies, and gender studies. </p> <p>Introduction <i>Binita Mehta<b> </b>and Pia Mukherji </i><b>Part I: Geographies of Contact: Gibraltar / Malta / Asia-Pacific </b>1. Plural Pathways, Plural Identities: Jean-Philippe Stassen’s <i>Les Visiteurs de Gibraltar Michelle Bumatay<b> </b></i>2. Joe Sacco’s "Prying Outsiders": Marginalization, Graphic Novel Form, and the Ethics of Postcolonial Representation <i>Sam Knowles </i>3. Tezuka Osamu’s Postcolonial Discourse towards a Hybrid National Identity <i>Roman Rosenbaum</i><b> Part II: Francophone Post-Histories: Algeria / Congo / Gabon </b>4. Memory and Postmemory in Morvandiau’s <i>D’Algérie Ann Miller </i>5. Guilty Melancholia and Memorial Work: Representing the Congolese Past in Comics <i>Véronique Bragard </i>6. Visualizing Postcolonial Africa: <i>La Vie de Pahé Binita Mehta </i><b>Part III: Postcolonial Politics: India </b>7. Postcolonial Demo-graphics: Traumatic Realism in Vishwajyoti Ghosh’s <i>Delhi Calm Pramod K. Nayar </i>8. Graphics of Freedom: Colonial Terrorists and Postcolonial Revolutionaries in Indian Comics <i>Harleen Singh </i>9. Graphic Ecriture: Gender and Magic Iconography in <i>Kari Pia Mukherji </i><b>Part IV: War, Nationhood, and Transnationalism: The Middle East </b>10. Visualizing the Emerging Nation: Jewish and Arab Editorial Cartoons in Palestine, 1939-48 <i>Jeffrey John Barnes </i>11. Drawing for a New Public: Middle Eastern 9th Art and the Emergence of a Transnational Graphic Movement <i>Massimo di Ricco </i>12. Men with Guns: War Narratives in New Lebanese Comics <em>Lena Merhej</em></p>